Vows
In the End, No Matchmaker Need Apply
By JILL P. CAPUZZO
Saira Hussain and Assad Akhter started out tentatively, but finally the sparks ignited.
Common to the postscript of every Olympics, and especially the very expensive Games in Sochi, Russia, is the difficult task of moving beyond past glories and recouping the investment.
Saira Hussain and Assad Akhter started out tentatively, but finally the sparks ignited.
A trip to West Africa by way of the Bronx at the restaurant Patina.
Mr. Lopez, a former St. John’s star and professional player who works with teenagers through N.B.A. Cares, attends Sunday services at his evangelical church and, later, at St. Patrick’s.
The New Museum’s Triennial show focuses on artists for whom the Internet is the air they breathe and the world they see.
Diana Ross performed at the reopening of the renovated Kings Theater in Brooklyn on Tuesday night.
The chef Enrique Olvera brings his approach to Mexican cuisine north of the border to New York.
Federal officials said the impact between the train and a vehicle on the tracks dislodged an electrified rail, which, mixed with gasoline, created an inferno.
This week’s properties include a brick-and-log house in Kentucky, a contemporary in Arkansas and a houseboat in Seattle.
A passenger plane with 53 passengers and five crew members aboard crashed into a river in Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, shortly after takeoff on Wednesday morning.
Mock applications at age 6, campus tours at 10. More and more elementary schools are introducing college awareness. Is it ever too early to plan for the future?
Cocktail shakers don’t have to look this good to work, but why not add a splash of delight?
Fourteen artists were invited to burrow, excavate and embellish a couple’s Hudson, N.Y., home for a show open to the public called “Interventions II.”
Yorkville, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, snarled until recently by Second Avenue subway construction, is on the rebound.
In an era of digital devices, why are simple desktop toys still so appealing?
St. Barts was not hit hard during the economic downturn, and housing prices now exceed what they were before the market bubble.
Planting with the birds, the bees and the butterflies in mind.
The construction at Wrigley Field, which will not be finished by opening day, has attracted curious fans who have never seen the Friendly Confines quite like this.
Sariling Atin, whose name in Tagalog means “our own,” opened in April in Elmhurst, Queens, on a block once dominated by furniture showrooms.
The farmhouse in Columbia County was a new kind of habitat for a pair that had spent a quarter-century on beaches of Fire Island.
Homeowners in Arizona often call Rilée Leblanc, known as the “cactus doctor,” who has turned a passion for the plants into a business.
As the French operators of a popular historical theme park look to expand into Crimea, one question is, whose version of history will the park depict?
The performer, chef, writer and provocateur tries to take his brand of Asian-American anarchism to the mainstream.
A crowded train in Westchester County in New York slammed into a sport-utility vehicle at a crossing.
The 150-mile Red Desert-to-Hoback migration path allows a swath of Wyoming to support a mule deer population. Scientists now use it to study the deer.
The weeks of preparation over, the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks battled to the finish in Super Bowl XLIX before avid fans in Glendale, Ariz.
The blaze sent soaring flames and choking clouds of smoke into the air along the East River and disgorged as-yet-uncounted scraps of paper, including medical and court records, into the streets.
Among the Kurds of the Syrian border town, pride in victory outweighs grief over losses, even amid the destruction wrought by an Islamic State siege.
Jazz & Colors, an event previously in Central Park, has bands playing the same set across a broad location. On Friday, it hit the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Dozens of soldiers on each side have been killed and the countries are perilously close to open war.
A fiercely debated new immigration policy in the Bahamas requires everyone to hold a passport, a rule that human rights groups say unfairly targets people of Haitian descent.
The rebel government has lifted a ban on private coal mining, a widespread practice in the financially struggling region.
Because Venezuela is so dependent on oil sales to buy imports of food, medicine and many other basics, the drop in oil prices means that there is even less hard currency to buy what the country needs.
A season in the charmed, cutthroat life of the N.F.L.’s most enigmatic quarterback.
An environmental think tank says turning plant matter into liquid fuel or electricity is so inefficient that the approach is unlikely ever to supply a substantial fraction of global energy demand.
Women are prominent in every part of the state’s food operation, from farms to restaurants.
High winds and whiteout conditions swept across New England as the storm moved up the East Coast, leaving the island of Nantucket without power.
Much of the activity lost during a snowstorm could be made up in the next few weeks as residents caught up on missed shopping trips and work overtime to complete assignments, experts said.
An enormous collection of political memorabilia has been languishing in storage since its creator died, and his family and curators are seeking a way to organize and display thousands of treasures.
The slight daily increase is not necessarily a sign of a trend toward higher prices at the pump, energy experts said.
Although driving bans were in effect and transit was suspended, the dire warnings that it could be one of the worst blizzards in the city’s history failed to materialize.
President Obama came to an agreement with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India on nuclear energy, renewed a 10-year defense pact, agreed to joint military hardware production and resolved to work with India to reduce the threat of greenhouse gas emissions.
As a veteran lawmaker on the Navajo reservation, Edmund Yazzie is an integral part of the establishment. He is also the drummer for the metal band Testify.
The more centrist potential nominees for the party, such as Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney, were barely represented at Saturday’s forum.
The nets, with holes smaller than mosquitoes, trap much more than traditional fishing nets do and could wipe out stressed fish populations in Africa.
Day by day, meal by meal, training children to cope with Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare genetic form of obesity.
Soccer teams throughout Europe keep their players sharp by heading for training camps in warmer climates when their leagues shut down for winter breaks.
Accustomed to basing its identity on its grand old buildings, the South Carolina city now finds it almost impossible to agree on how to build new ones as its economy and its population grow.
An inquiry into the psyche of a mass-handshaking, fingernail-growing, motorcycle-pyramid-building nation.
Chez Oskar, in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, has stayed true to its original aesthetic in a changing neighborhood.
A flood gave Dr. Patricia Wexler the opportunity to redecorate her New York apartment.
The John Drew Theater Lab in East Hampton is a place for established and fledgling playwrights to present staged readings of their new works.
In an Indian city, little remains of the glorious past a father told stories about.
Mr. Morse, a Bronx native, was, at 24, the weekly magazine’s youngest war photographer and later covered the Mercury space program.
The deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown sparked angry protests in the streets that are now immortalized in art.
The Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory overflows with singular items from dozens of periods and genres.
Works by the German photographer Thomas Struth at the Metropolitan Museum of Art look at the interplay of people, place and art.
The extemporaneous spirit of a Caribbean open-air barbecue joint is strong at LoLo’s Seafood Shack in Harlem.
Jane Helser recently retired from working at the Wilson Sporting Goods factory in Ada, Ohio, where employees accustomed to precise specifications see the Patriots’ deflation scandal as a distant issue.
More than 500,000 square feet on seven floors, the last large block of unimproved space at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, will undergo a $100 million improvement.
In Vancouver, a gift of land brings three generations closer.
A blaze on Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Heights, which the Fire Department said was accidental, brought together families that had lived and worked next door to one another for two generations.
A long-dreamed-of cottage in Walberswick, England, inspires the novelist Esther Freud’s latest book, about Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Los Angeles began taking water from the Owens Valley nearly a century ago, inspiring the movie “Chinatown.” But the fight that ensued may soon be over.
President Obama defended an activist federal government and challenged Republicans to support him on education, child care and middle-class tax breaks.
A 1970s experiment in communal housing at the University of California, Davis, continues to draw students with its sustainable, grow-your-own ethos.
In several large cities, protests were organized by activists who wanted to use the day to denounce injustice and to point out social inequality.
The Philharmonie de Paris, a new concert hall, is part of a complex that officials hope will lure patrons away from their usual cultural haunts.
An increasing number of spaces offer travelers all-inclusive co-working facilities in exotic locations, intertwining vacation time with job time.
Many residents of Midland, a community dependent on oil drilling, already have their backup plans in place as work starts to dry up.
The Central Illinois Xpress basketball team is the only team of girls in a fifth-grade boys’ league. They have an 8-1 record and aren’t intimidated.
Green Bay scored the first 16 points of the game and tied the score after Seattle took a late lead, but the Seahawks quickly drove for a touchdown in overtime, on a 35-yard pass to Jermaine Kearse.
Jeff Greene’s Beverly Hills estate, listed at $195 million, is believed to be the most expensive public listing in the country.
Angelo Cabrera lived in New York for 24 years, getting two degrees and founding a social services group. But when he went to Mexico to fix his immigration status, he was told he couldn’t return.
After a popular candidate was rejected, critics said that a requirement that Navajo presidents be fluent in their native language had allowed tradition to trump progress.
A road trip through the whitewashed villages of the Alentejo, the southern Portuguese wine country.
In a remarkable economic comeback, La Ciotat has become Europe’s largest yacht-maintenance and refitting seaport.
Using a Nikon 35-mm film camera, Cooper Neill created these double exposures at Monday night’s national championship college football game in Arlington, Tex.
Zerega Indoor Paddleball Courts in the Bronx has many veterans of the sport, but the new owners have attracted more young people by opening additional space to handball.
The jeweler and sculptor has lived in the same downtown loft since she was a student.
Cast as an extra, the groom finds his princess making a Bollywood movie at Harvard.
Division II Bellarmine University has been among the top 10 shooting teams in seven consecutive seasons, employing a basketball philosophy used by the 1969-70 Knicks.
“Freedom Journey 1965: Photographs of the Selma to Montgomery March by Stephen Somerstein” runs through April 19 at the New-York Historical Society.
The workers who patrol Oahu’s North Shore battle a force far greater than anything that technology can overcome: In 2013, they handled more than 1,000 ocean rescues and major medical cases.
“The Rolling Stones,” a new book collecting more than 50 years of images of the band, contains previously uncirculated photographs from its own archives.
John Cameron Mitchell stars in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” on Broadway, in a part he has played elsewhere and in the movie.
At Meow Parlour on the Lower East Side, cat lovers can get their fill (for a fee).
The Roswell, N.M., site had been the home of an Atlas-F missile, 100 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The silo is a fixer-upper, to put it mildly.
The Talking Band, a SoHo based avant-garde theater company that produced its first show 40 years ago, remains active and vital.
At Plant Love House in Elmhurst, Queens, a mother and her daughters offer Thai street food with house rules that will have you grinning.
“Gateway to Freedom,” a book about the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner, began with the notebook of an abolitionist editor, Sydney Howard Gay.
For the first time in many years, the public is welcome on Pier A, which will include restaurants and bars after being rehabilitated by the Battery Park City Authority.
Not far from the glamour of the auto show, vehicles that once were stars of the show now sit abandoned around the city.
It was easy to embrace a dilapidated farmhouse when the buyers saw the chunk of property it sat on.
The best present ideas, selected by Times experts, to make shopping easy this season.
The men and women of one Ebola clinic in rural Liberia reflect on life inside the gates.
For nine days, waves of pro-democracy protests engulfed Hong Kong, swelling at times to tens of thousands of people and raising tensions with Beijing.
The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The latest image in the series is published here for the first time.
Few collegians work as hard as the U.S. Military Academy’s 786 female cadets.
A journey through the state, featuring Jimmy Carter, Civil War re-enactors and newborn Cabbage Patch Kids.
A panoramic view of the progress at the new World Trade Center site exactly 13 years after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Scenes of sorrow and violence in a Missouri town after an unarmed black teenager was shot by a police officer.
The damage to Gaza’s infrastructure from the current conflict is already more severe than the destruction caused by either of the last two Gaza wars.
The Times asked firefighters to submit their first fire experiences on City Room. Read a selection of those stories.
The daily tally of rocket attacks, airstrikes and deaths in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The reporter Damien Cave and the photographer Todd Heisler traveled up Interstate 35, from Laredo, Tex., to Duluth, Minn., chronicling how the middle of America is being changed by immigration.
World War I destroyed kings, kaisers, czars and sultans; it demolished empires; it introduced chemical weapons; it brought millions of women into the work force.
Despite a period of rising incomes, a tide of economic discontent helped make Narendra Modi the prime minister-elect.
Highlights from a map of N.B.A. fandom based on Facebook “likes.”
A 32,000-ton arch that will end up costing $1.5 billion is being built in Chernobyl, Ukraine, to all but eliminate the risk of further contamination at the site of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion.
Fairgoers share memories of family outings and moments of inspiration at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and then vanished without a trace.
Runners, spectators and volunteers who were at the finish line of the Boston Marathon when the bombs exploded reflect on how their lives have been affected. Here are their stories of transformation.
Nelson Mandela’s death spurred an international outpouring of praise, remembrance and celebration.
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer the questions to see your personal dialect map.
Typhoon Haiyan, which cut a destructive path across the Philippines, is believed by some climatologists to be the strongest storm to ever make landfall.
Voters elected Bill de Blasio, but New York has always been a city of unofficial mayors.
Your guide to the year’s most important meal, with our best recipes, videos, techniques and tricks.
The International Herald Tribune, the global edition of The New York Times, has become The International New York Times. A look at its journey.
Along the highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg — a 12-hour trip by car — one sees great neglected stretches of land that seem drawn backward in time.
For the first time in over a decade, New York City will vote in a new mayor. A look back at the 2013 primary campaign for mayor in New York City, in photographs.
More than 6.5 million Syrians have been displaced by the war, according to the United Nations. The New York Times visited the homes of four of them to hear their stories.
Uncertainty about how an outside attack could affect Syria’s civil war is one of the factors leading to disagreement among Western countries about how to respond.
In a five-part series of reports on young, under-the-radar fashion designers we visit each at a different stage in the process as they prepare for New York Fashion Week.
At age 55, the jockey Russell Baze is still making all the right moves
in a dangerous sport.
More than 50 ways to make use of the things you’re most likely to find in a market or your C.S.A. basket.
New York may be noisier than ever, but pockets of peace exist – if you know where to look. Here is a selection from readers.
Browse archival photographs, video and articles chronicling the city’s quest for quiet.
Revel in the season with a pie (or a tart, or a cobbler). Here are 20 recipes to carry you through the warm months.
Lynda Obst, Mike Vollman, Erik Feig and others help The Times make the next big tent-pole movie.
Times coverage from the late 1960s and the 1970s shows the South Bronx as a crumbling, desolate and dangerous place. Ángel Franco, a Times photographer, revisited neighborhoods featured in that coverage to see how the view has changed.
The mean streets of the borough that rappers like the Notorious B.I.G. crowed about are now hipster havens, where cupcakes and organic kale rule.
A sequence revisiting how Chicago’s Nate Robinson, one of the best at teardrop shots, scored over the Nets’ Brook Lopez in a game at the end of the season.
About 120,000 Syrians are calling the tents and trailers of the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan home, at least for the foreseeable future.
On April 15, the first of two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Here are the stories of the runners, spectators and others seen in this image.
One suspect in the Boston bombings is dead and the second was taken into custody Friday night.
Fred R. Conrad, a New York Times photographer, set up a studio at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show this week and invited Best of Breed winners to pose.
New York City was a vastly different place when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg gave his first State of the City address in 2002, and his focus has shifted on various issues.
Ray Lewis, Randy Moss and others with Super Bowl experience share the advice they have given their teammates.
European Union officials have struggled to turn things around — debating new treaties, shoring up banks, securing more funding. The people of Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Latvia have dealt with economic troubles in various ways.
Forty-two memorable front pages from the past year, picked by editors on the Times news desk who oversee the content, design and production of Page 1.
Mr. Sulzberger shaped the destiny of The New York Times for 34 years as its publisher and as chairman and chief executive of its parent company.
A day-by-day recap of the conventions in Tampa, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C.
Emotional victories, stunning defeats and fierce competition from the Olympic Games.
See the most prominent vocal producer in the music industry, Kuk Harrell, in action, and then listen along with him as members of the girl group Calvillo perform a part of their song “Right Now.”
A selection of Tony Award nominees, including Josh Young from “Jesus Christ Superstar,” perform songs and scenes from this year’s shows.
What has happened after 2,400 technology, Internet and telecom I.P.O.’s.
The players on the Carroll Academy girls basketball team have little experience with organized sports and myriad troubles outside of school.
A series profiling people who are functioning normally despite severe mental illness and have chosen to speak out about their struggles.
Examining the worldwide struggle to find answers about Alzheimer’s disease.
Photos from Ukraine, Mexico, Jordan and Taiwan.
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